Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran should boost non-oil exports and continue oil sales to counter U.S. sanctions. saying Washington was targeting Tehran’s hard currency reserves. state television reported
“America is trying to decrease our foreign reserves … So we have to increase our hard currency income and cut our currency expenditures.“ Rouhani said in remarks carried live on Iranian TV.
“We should increase production and raise our (non-oil) exports and resist America’s plots against the sale of our oil.“ Rouhani said.